htaccess url rewriting, ignoring files - php

I am trying to come up with a rewrite rule, but I am having problems.
What I need - any url that starts with /services/XXX to be redirected to /services/api.php?service=XXX
I also want to ignore any files or folders that might also match.
What I have so far:
RewriteRule ^services/([a-z]+)$ /services/api.php?service=$1 [NC, L]
But this does not work at all, it shows a 404 page saying that file is missing when I test it.
Any help is much appreciated.

To ignore the files that exists just ignore the "RewriteCond"s.
Just rewrite everything that comes into services/ to api.php?service ...
Put this into your services folder.
Be careful with your encoding, save the file as .htaccess with a encode that your server reads.
# .htaccess mod_rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ api.php?service=$1 [QSA,L]
If you don't need to avoid Files, then just go to:
# .htaccess mod_rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ api.php?service=$1 [QSA,L]

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htaccess adding [NC,F] to GET parameter

I'm working on an MVC project and I have the following .htaccess file:
Options -Indexes
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?path=$1 [L]
RewriteRule !^(public/|index\.php) [NC,F]
It works OK. I only want the public/ folder and the index.php file to be accessible to the public. All other paths should be inserted into the path GET parameter. For example, mysite.com/controller/method should point to mysite.com/index.php?path=controller/method.
Now, there is a problem. When visiting the URL directly (without including index.php, it is adding [NC,F] to the GET path parameter. It's like visiting mysite.com is pointing to mysite.com/index.php?path=[NC,F].
Why is this happening and how do I fix it?
EDIT
I moved index.php into the public/ folder. Here is my .htaccess file now:
Options -Indexes
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/index.php?path=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ public/index.php [L]
RewriteRule !^(public/) [NC,F]
It seems to work OK. Are there any other improvements I could make on this?
You don't have a redirect location on the last rule, so it's taking the flags as the redirect location. Just a dash will be fine since it's a forbidden response. Change the last line to:
RewriteRule !^(public/|index\.php$) - [NC,F]
Also adding the dollar sign after index.php just to be clear.
Edit:
I would suggest updating your new rule set to the following (actually I suggest a complete re-think below, but this is an update on what you have):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^$ public/index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/index.php?path=$1 [L]
RewriteRule !^(public/) - [NC,F]
The (/)? wasn't needed in your homepage rule, as the opening forward slash is not included in .htaccess matches anyway.
I moved your rule for the homepage to the top or it will never be used due to being matched by the previous rule (so the path param is not there when empty, which is presumably what you intended).
I stopped anything in /public/ from being passed to your index.php script, since the way you had it, anything in public that didn't exist would have been passed to your index script, which does not seem to be what you intend.
I added RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/public/index.php so the rule couldn't be executed on itself and create a loop if rule processing is run through more than once, which it can be, but then took it back out because the above match on /public/ covers that anyway.
A Re-Think
All that said, I don't think it really makes sense to check if files don't exist and then just send forbidden responses to the ones that do, yet send everything else to your index script. Why not just send everything to your index script? That seems to be what you want really. I would suggest you simplify to this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/index.php?path=$1 [L]
Dropping the homepage rule since no need to worry about an empty path parameter being passed to your index script. Changing the logic to be "Leave anything in /public/ alone. For anything else, pass it through to the index.php script." so files tests not needed since the script handles it all, and no forbidden response needed because there is nothing left to match, it's all covered by the rules. You can always return forbidden to anything you don't want to process in your script, which you would have needed to do anyway for existing file URLs in your previous setup.
One Last Re-Think
And finally, if I might suggest, it would be cleaner to have your index.php file in the root of the website, so you can make /public/ work with its own index file later if you like, so finally I would move it back to the root and change the rules to this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?path=$1 [L]
And if you like all that, an up-vote to go with already accepting the answer would be much appreciated. :)
Adding RewriteRule ^(/)?$ public/index.php [L] seems to have resolved the issue. I'm not sure if this is the best approach, but here is my .htaccess file now:
Options -Indexes
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/index.php?path=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ public/index.php [L]
RewriteRule !^(public/) [NC,F]
I moved index.php into the public folder to make things clearer.

.htaccess doesn't redirect direct link to .php files

This is my current .htaccess file:
DirectoryIndex requestHandler.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ requestHandler.php?/$0 [L,QSA]
I want to redirect alle requests to "requestHandler.php". It works now, but it is also possible to access sites with the direct link, and I don't want that.
For example:
It now works with ".../api/register" , but you can also access it but going to ".../register.php" and that shouldn't be possible. It should only be possible to go to register.php by ".../api/register".
I think I had it working before, but as I continued editing I've seemed to mess it up.
requestHandler.php should be working properly and when I enter ".../register.php" it is not at all redirected to requestHandler, but if I enter ".../registe.php" or ".../register.ph" it is redirected there.
Any solutions?
The rule you posted is only checking if the file/directory exists, and if it doesn't, then redirect to requestHandler.php. So naturally, if an existing file is entered in the URL, it will not redirect.
If you want all ".php" files to get redirected as well, you'll need a more specific Rewrite rules. Something like this maybe:
DirectoryIndex requestHandler.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ requestHandler.php?/$0 [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.php$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ requestHandler.php?/$0 [L,QSA]
You can probably consolidate that into one rule block, but at least this way it's very readable. The second rule block is only checked if the requested file is not a file or a directory.

RewriteRule to redirect to php file not working

I just want a simple redirect to clean up the url's on a site.
e.g.
I want ajhtestserver.com/registration/ to redirect to ajhtestserver.com/registration.php
It should be easy and I have successfully used .htaccess rewrites on other sites but for some reason it just will not work for me today.
RewriteEngine On # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteRule ^registration[/]$ registration.php [NC,L] # Handle requests for "registration"
I am sure it is something simple that I am missing but I basically just copied what I have on other sites that work fine for me so I am confused as to why it just refuses to work for me here (gives me The requested URL /ajhtestserver/registration/ was not found on this server. error). Just one of those days :(
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Adam
if you use apache ,first you should enable rewrite_mode in http.conf or ...\
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^registration/(.*)$ registration.php/$1 [L]
check .htaccess syntax or rewrite mode.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)[/]$ $1.php [L]
Well it didn't seem to like it when the redirect source word and target filename were the same word but this works...
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\ ]+)[/]?$ $1.php [NC,L]
And that is actually a better solution anyway as it doesn't require a separate rule for each page.
Though I never did figure out why it didn't like it the original way.

Remove file extention from urls

I have some urls in my website like this..
http://www.mydomain.com/about.php
http://www.mydomain.com/contact.php
http://www.mydomain.com/signup.php
http://www.mydomain.com/testimonials.php ...... and much more
Now I am trying to convert above urls to user friendly url
http://www.mydomain.com/about
http://www.mydomain.com/contact
http://www.mydomain.com/signup
http://www.mydomain.com/testimonials
This is code in my .htaccess file that I am tried so far. But it doesn't work.
# Add trailing slash to url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/|#(.*))$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [R=301,L]
# Remove .php-extension from url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)/$ $1.php
Anyone can help me to remove .php etension from my urls??
Thank you.
Get rid of the conditions you are using and instead use the below 2 lines in your htaccess file
RewriteEngine On # Turn on the rewriting engine
RewriteRule ^whatever/?$ whatever.php [NC]
This will work even if user types a forward slash after the name or not
If you want to make them dynamic, here's a good tutorial on that
for a proper implementation so as not cause confusion during deployment if you dont have access to the htaccess file of your server or if it is override. You can consider a library like toro-php http://toroweb.org/ for easy routing.

How to rewrite URL to include variables and remove php while allowing directories

I have the following htaccess
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/?user=$1
which works as expected for example
http://example.com/index.php?user=USERNAME -> http://example.com/USERNAME
However I have created a form on the page index.php which posts to /directory/save.php
How do I remove .php while allowing for the directory so that I can post to /directory/save/ instead?
if it is going to one and only such file in /directory then probably hard code it by adding following before the above rules?
RewriteRule ^directory/save$ /directory/save.php [L]
directory/ might have it's own rewrite rules and not have a physical save.php, that's why !-f might not work. Try adding a new rewrite condition to stop rewriting for directory/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^directory
Try to check this one if it's rewriting /directory/save.php file to directory /directory/save/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/directory/save\.php$
RewriteRule ^(.+) /directory/save/ [NC]

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